Synonyms for alterable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : awl-ter-uh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔl tər ə bəl


Définition of alterable

Origin :
  • 1520s, from alter + -able. Related: Alterably; alterability.
  • adj changeable
Example sentences :
  • Must we regard this emotional endowment of woman as permanent or alterable?
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
  • Their acts are "alterable" by the Board of Overseers, to whom they are responsible.
  • Extract from : « Colleges in America » by John Marshall Barker
  • So if Truth is an alterable and shifting concept, must not morality likewise be variable?
  • Extract from : « Prophets of Dissent » by Otto Heller
  • But all the other laws of Scotland shall remain in force; but alterable by the parliament of Great Britain.
  • Extract from : « Commentaries on the Laws of England » by William Blackstone
  • Our sentence we cannot alter; a Court's sentence is alterable only by appeal; your Majesty decides where the appeal is to lie!
  • Extract from : « History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XXI. (of XXI.) » by Thomas Carlyle
  • This proves, that the very men who had made that constitution, understood that it would be alterable by the General Assembly.
  • Extract from : « Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson » by Thomas Jefferson
  • It is not shackled with a Bill of Rights, and every part of it, is at any time, alterable by an ordinary Legislature.
  • Extract from : « A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings » by Noah Webster
  • Our dinner-hour is four: but alterable without inconvenience to earlier or later.
  • Extract from : « Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. II (of 2) » by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • The provisions with respect to this second order fall within the class of enactments which are alterable by the Irish Legislature.
  • Extract from : « Handbook of Home Rule (1887) » by W. E. Gladstone et al.
  • The manner of it is very alterable; the matter and fact of it is not alterable by any power under the sky.
  • Extract from : « Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History » by Thomas Carlyle

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